The Defense Department is turning to industry to take over the management of its portfolio of mobile IT services. Officials say rapid growth in the number of DoD-issued mobile devices has made the current, government-managed approach unsustainable. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Workers at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland continue to prepare the James Webb Space Telescope for its October 2018 launch.
Cybersecurity experts say the government needs to address gaps in its IT systems and workforce to strengthen its defenses against data breaches, threats that are now a part of everyday federal operations.
Agencies need data of all types and sources available for applications they might not have yet thought of. This year's email mandate is only the beginning.
Megan Schmith, director, Enterprise Application Development & Platform Strategy at the General Services Administration, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how mobile and cloud computing are saving money for federal agencies. April 26, 2016
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partners Ready To Prime, Allen Scott is joined by Kiersten Todt, executive director of the Presidents' Commission on National Security.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board may need to ask for more resources to get through the rest of fiscal 2016, the agency's leadership warned. The board predicts the money it spends on cybersecurity upgrades and external audits will likely force the agency to exceed 2016 budget allocations before the year ends.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued guidance for mobile health app developers to help them stay in the rails of a half dozen laws and maybe hundreds of regulations. Cora Han, an attorney in the FTC's division of privacy and identity protection, shares the latest on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.